Well one thing that has changed is the platform for discussion on the internet. Ten years ago forums [yes even this one at times] was a hotbed of debate, discussion, passion, anger, heated words and barbed exchanges for good or ill.

Now it's social media that captures people's imaginations, their hearts and their 140 characters.

I've often thought of setting up a Facebook page [I don't use twitter] for this forum and inviting everyone to join and take part, but part of me just appreciates this kind of forum as more select and more focused, more respectful and measured table for discussion.

As a relative newbie I've noticed how much more active the forum seemed to be in the past; what's the problem I wonder... is it just the site got overtaken by spammers and people got tired and just left, or maybe in a life of 25 years there's a feeling that everything has been said that can be said... anyway it's been of interest to read the debates from years ago by posters who seem to have now disappeared into the ether...!

St. Agnes' Eve - Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold...

Yeah, much as I wish the forum were more active (and even at it's most active it couldn't compete with the traffic on social networks today) sadly things are dwindling here, and there are times that I am tempted to just leave the place to fall down around itself and see if anyone notices or even cares

Saturn wrote:Yeah, much as I wish the forum were more active (and even at it's most active it couldn't compete with the traffic on social networks today) sadly things are dwindling here, and there are times that I am tempted to just leave the place to fall down around itself and see if anyone notices or even cares

Don't do that Saturn...people will still come on.

John....you did not live to see-who we are because of what you left,what it is we are in what we make of you.Peter Sanson, 1995.

You could always create a sister google+ groups for this forum- google+ is doing well these days. I am on a classical music one which was set up by ex Beethoven sonata coursemates. It is posted on daily!

John....you did not live to see-who we are because of what you left,what it is we are in what we make of you.Peter Sanson, 1995.

My life has gotten way too busy with work which absorbs often 70 hrs /week or more. But I am glad to have this forum around. I don't have anything to post these days. Dealing with family crises is never simple and takes a long time to recover.

"Come... dry your eyes, for you are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly. Dry your eyes... and let's go home."